Flipping the Chemical Engineering Process Control Class with e-Lessons

Tom Marlin joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as NSERC Research Professor in Industrial Process Control in 1988. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1972; then, he practiced engineering for 15 years in the chemical and petroleum industries. In 1987, he served as the Visiting Fellow, for the Warren Centre Study located at the University of Sydney, Australia. During the one-year project, a team of over 40 academics and practitioners investigated methods for quantifying benefits from automation; the results of this project were published in an ISA book. From 1988-2007, Dr. Marlin served as director of the McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC), which develops relevant research through collaboration among university researchers and numerous companies. After retirement in 2008, he has continued to teach university courses in process control. He maintains the WEB site PC-Education.mcmaster.ca, which contains learning materials for process control and design, including his textbook and supporting e-Lessons. Dr. Marlin’s research interests focus on improved dynamic performance of dynamic systems through real-time operations optimization and process control design.